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G. H. ROGERS 8v A. J. BARBER.

STOVB TRUCK. 140.444,020. Patented Jan-6, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. ROGERS AND ARTHUR J. BARBER, OF SODUS, NEW YORK.

STOVE-TRUCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,020, dated January 6, 1891. Application tiled March 8, 1890. Serial No. 343.104. (No model.)

To au zoll/m, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE H. ROGERS and ARTHUR J. BARBER, citizens of the United States, residing at Sodus, in the county of.

Vayne and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Trucks; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willk enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of our invention is to provide a truck for moving heavy objects, and more particularly such as are provided with feet that shall be adjustable in its dimensions, simple in structure, and adapted to carry its head near the oor or ground; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

Figure 1 is a plan of our improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the parts being diterently adjusted. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a modifled form, partly in section. Fig. 4 is a bottom view ot a shoe-clamp and bars, the latter Fig. 5 is an elevation of the inner end of one form of bar. Fig. 6 is an elevation of a modified form of the inner end of bar; and Fig. 7 is a transverse section, on an enlarged scale, on line a:

of Fig. 1.

The frame of the improved truck is composed of steel or iron bars 7, 8, and 9, so arranged as to constitute four members having a common center. These arms or members are each secured at their outer extremities in a clamping-socket 1, which at its end is bentdown to form a shoe or socket 2 to receive the foot of safe, table, piano, stove, or other heavy article. This clamp-socket l rests upon acasterandisprovided with bolt-holes,through which pass bolts 3 3, that secure the caster to the truck. 4 is a lug fixed within the clamp in such relation to said bolt that when the bars 7 7 or 9 9 are entered in the slots 6 in the inner end flange of the clamping device and.

between the bolts and lug and above and upon the caster-body they will be securely held, the caster-body being forced against them by suitable nuts 5 5 on the bolts.

The bars 7 are4 arranged to overlap each other 'a'. their inner ends, and they are there supported in a shoe or seat 10, having lugs 11. This seat is a simple plate provided at each of its corners with a post or lug 11, between Which the overlapping ends of bars 7 are arranged to stand edgewise and in contact with the lugs, the transverse bars being placed atwise, one on the. upper edges of bars 7 and the other under the plate. The screw-bolt 12 passes through each plate 8 and through the shoe and between the overlapping ends of the bars 7. The latter can be adjusted lengthwise when the nut on bolt 12 is loosened, stops 16 being provided to prevent their being accidentally drawn entirely out. These stops are preferably formed by punching the metal from the opposite side, though the end of each bar might be bent to form a stop or other equivalent device cmployed, and the device would be operative were the stops omitted.

At the outer end of each lower bar 8 is secured a shoe or seat 13, provided with lugs 14, between which and a central bolt 15 are adjustably secured the bars 9, provided with stops 16, the bolt passing through the upper and lower plate 8 and the shoe 13. The construction is similar to that above described in connection with bars 7 and shoe 10. The nuts for the bolts 12 and 15 may for convenience be provided with handles. Where it is desired to lengthen or shorten the members of the^truckframe, the nuts are loosen ed and the bars suitably slid upon each other and the nuts then tightened. In some cases itis contemplated locating the nuts on the lower sides or edges of the bars and countersinking the heads of the bolts, as indicated in Fig. 3, for the purpose of providing an unobstructed level bearing on the truck-frame.

The brackets or .clamps 1 are preferably provided with depressed shoes or sockets 2 to receive the feet of heavy articles, whereby the center of gravity is kept near the floor, and whereby also the raising of such object from the floor to an unnecessary height is avoided. The truck can be run under the article between its legs and each foot successively lifted up slightly and a shoe pushed under and made to receive it, the adj ustabil ity of the parts permitting them all to be thus placed.

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'bars rst named When not in use, the bars 7 can be slid tol and gether, the bars!) drawn out and swung around against bars S, which latter can be moved about bolt 12, so as to put the device in a compact form,all as indicated in Fig. 2. The shoes can be placed within an inch or two of the floor, and as the body of the4 truck is concealed beneath the article placed on it, it can be left thereon conveniently, when desired.

The members can be readily adjusted to articles having' three legs as they swing laterally, and are also extensible lengthwise.

Having thus described our inventiomwhat we desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. In a truck, the combination of the frame provided with casters, the clamping-sockets to receive the caster-housings and the shoes, the latter having their upper surface depressed below thc housings, substantially as set forth.

2. Ina truck, the clamping-socket and shoe, the socket-plate being provided with boltholes and with a lng 4 and with a flange hav- .ing slots 6 to receive the bars of the trnckframe, and a caster, the caster-housing being bolted in the socket, substantially as set forth.

a 3. In a truck-frame, the combination of a bar-holding shoe, two pairs of bars placed on edge within the shoe and overlapping each other, with a pair of bars, one of which is placed transversely and width'wise upon the and the other parallel with bar and below the other through the upper the said transverse bars, and a bolt passing lower bars and shoe and between the pairs of edgewise bars, substantially as set forth.

4. In a truck-frame, the combination of a bar-holding shoe, two pairs of bars placed on edge within the shoe and overlapping each other, one of each pair having a stop, with a pair of bars, one of which is placed transversely and widthwise upon the bars first named and the other parallel with the said transverse bar and belo\r the other bars, and a bolt passing through the upper and lower bars and shoe and between the pairs of edgewise bars, said latter bars and the bolt illing the shoe laterally, the bolt being in the path of the stops, substantially as set forth.

5. ln a truck-f rame, the combination of two pairs of overlapping endwise-adjustable bars placed edgewise, two bars placed transversely of said overlapping bars, one above and one below the same. and adj ustablybolted thereon, and two pairs of bars, each placed between the outer ends of said transverse bars and adjustably bolted thereto, whereby the several pairs ot' bars can be folded in approximately parallel positions, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we aliix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE ll. ROGERS. ARTHUR J. BARBER.

Witnesses:

W. R. lloro, HENRY .l-liLL. 

